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n June 1954 on national television, Joe Welch, the US Army's chief counsel, exposed Senator Joseph McCarthy's dubious morality with those two legendary questions: "Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" Such was the novelty of television back then that having given McCarthy an authoritative forum for his views, TV could now...read more

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"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
Joseph H. Welch, Army-McCarthy hearings, June 9, 1954
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Have you no sense of decency,
sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
-- Joseph N. Welch, head counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation by Joseph
McCarthy 's Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on ...

“At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” In 1954, an aging lawyer named Joseph Welch asked that question of Sen. Joe McCarthy and brought to its end an era of bizarre intimidation of Congress and the nation. Now, after law...